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Historical geniuses used the “creative nap” to give their minds a boost. Apparently, the “hypnagogic state” can help with problem solving.
Creative people are better able to engage brain systems that don’t typically work together.
An average undergraduate student in physics is better than the AI.
The writer’s tragic death at age 46 has led many to view him as a tortured artist. Here’s why this label is reductive.
Why human attempts to mechanize logic keep breaking down.
Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking computer program that allowed them to express affection vicariously when so doing publicly, as gay men, was criminal.
Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus.
Delay the instant gratification of online knowledge and first seek out the wisdom within yourself.
Many key inventions were unique: one-offs.
The Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887, despite expectations, revealed a null result: no effect. The implications were revolutionary.
Soviet censorship was thorough yet fallible.
Elon Musk suggested remote-controlled, vibrating anal beads. Thankfully, there are more mundane explanations.
“Time Warp” all the way back to 1800s spiritualism, magic performances, and spook shows.
Despite being called the “dismal science,” economics impacts our lives every day. Here, we look at seven of the greatest economists in history.
Unless you confront your theory with what’s actually out there in the Universe, you’re playing in the sandbox, not engaging in science.
“Salvator Mundi” sold for a record-breaking $450 million in 2017, but is it really as valuable as people were led to believe?
In all directions, at great distances, the Universe looks younger, more uniform, and less evolved. Does that mean Earth must be the center?
The author of Frankenstein had an obsession with the cemetery and saw love and death as connected.
Studio Ghibli movies celebrate the natural world using a very Japanese mixture of Shinto, Buddhist, and Daoist themes.
Even without the greatest individual scientist of all, every one of his great scientific advances would still have occurred. Eventually.
Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a “lazybones” with a “not very solid” education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.
Nietzsche both wished he was as stupid as a cow so he wouldn’t have to contemplate existence, and pitied cows for being so stupid that they couldn’t contemplate existence.
Michael Faraday’s 1834 law of induction was the key experiment behind the eventual discovery of relativity. Einstein admitted it himself.
His grandfather, a member of Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb team, foresaw the potential of nuclear energy to power cities — not destroy them.
A new model of the Antikythera mechanism reveals a “creation of genius.”
From Brahms to Tchaikovsky, here’s a curated list of composers whose music has shaped the classical canon.
In our Universe, all stable atomic nuclei have protons in them; there’s no stable “neutronium” at all. But what’s the reason why?